Drudge Matters

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza writes that Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report are politically consequential, especially among conservatives, but also more broadly. The wide open GOP race gives opinion molders like Drudge more clout. Cillizza concludes:

All of the Republican campaigns (and maybe even the Clinton campaign) will fear him — and have a strategy on how to deal with him. That, in my book, is real influence. And Drudge has it.